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7 Things You Should Know BEFORE Choosing a Backup Solution

Choosing a backup solution is a commitment. Switching services, or worse, losing data, can be painful and costly so getting it right the first time is essential to the bottom line. Here’s real advice on what to expect when shopping for your solution:
1. Tape is great for backing up – if

Your worst data loss?

GDV wants to know: What’s the worst consequence you’ve suffered after losing data a computer crash or hacking?
A recent study by a leading online backup provider indicated data loss is on the rise. 48 percent of American small businesses (between 2 and 20 employees) had experienced data loss, up 6 percent

9 Things to Ask About Online Data Storage

Everyday people are becoming more and more digital from photos, scanned documents for paperless offices and computer files, our appetite for electronic mediums is growing by leaps and bounds. And with that growth is an ever growing importance protecting that information. Businesses can be destroyed by natural disaster if an appropriate means of backing up [...]

UC (Unified Communications) Radio

A big thank you to Dave Casey and UC Radio. I sat down last week and had a great conversation about data protection, disaster recovery and offsite data storage and the implications for unified communications with Dave. We covered the recent evolution of the technology available as well as key developments we expect to have [...]

We Miss Cramming for Exams

School is back in session and no one is happier than our football loving crew on a Saturday afternoon watching some good ol’ helmet knocking showdowns. Stories of our days on campus wouldn’t be complete without the admission of a few recurring nightmares of Dr. Johnson’s Economics exams that still haunt us. Everyone has one [...]

We Like Tape

It holds our kids’ pictures on the wall.
Tape delay allows us to see the Olympics at a decent hour.
Tape rescues a torn hem on your pants before you walk into that really important meeting where you have to be taken seriously.
But tape can get expensive. And we’re not talking about the Scotch brand that sits [...]

Global Data Vault to be Featured in FalconStor Case Study

Global Data Vault will be featured in an upcoming case study which will be presented by FalconStor.
FalconStor Software provides comprehensive solutions that facilitate the continuous availability of business-critical data with speed, integrity, and simplicity. These solutions allow businesses of all sizes to overcome real-world data protection and storage challenges including dramatically increasing data, shrinking backup [...]

Data About Data

Global Data Vault now stores more data than all of the volumes in the Library of Congress. We actually passed that mark – 15TB – a long time ago. In fact this month alone, we added much more new storage than 15TB.
So, are our customers so prolific in their generation of data that they could [...]